The writing of official military history / edited by Robin Higham.

Objectives and methodology of military historiography -- The institute of military history of the German Democratic Republic : objectives and results / Paul Heider -- Of aphorisms, lessons, and paradigms : comparing the British and German official histories of the Russo-Japanese war / Gary P. Cox -- John Fortescue, James Edmonds, and the history of the Great War : a case of "ritual murder"? / John Hussey -- The making of air history -- Italian service histories and fascist Italy's war effort / James J. Sadkovich -- Association with Franklin D. Roosevelt : a memoir / Dudley W. Knox -- When Clio marries Mars : the combat historian / F.D.G. Williams and Robert K. Wright -- The campaign in Norway and official histories : a demicentenary review / Robin Higham.